Surface pressure information retrieved from GPS radio occultation measurements

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 677, 2013, Pages 2108-2118

  Healy, S B ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; GPS radio occultation; Numerical weather prediction; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; GLOBAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS; GPS RADIO OCCULTATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS;

DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; RADIO; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE PRESSURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84890137567     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2090     Document Type: Article

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